# 1086 search results for "parallel"

## Why use R? Five reasons.

March 27, 2014
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In this post I will go through 5 reasons: zero cost, crazy popularity, awesome power, dazzling flexibility, and mind-blowing support. I believe R is the best statistical programming language to learn. As a blogger who has contributed over 150 posts in Stata and over 100 in R I have extensive experience with both a proprietary statistical programming language...

## Alluvial diagrams

March 27, 2014
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Parallel coordinates plot is one of the tools for visualizing multivariate data. Every observation in a dataset is represented with a polyline that crosses a set of parallel axes corresponding to variables in the dataset. You can create such plots in R using a function parcoord in package MASS. For example, we can create such

## Stochastic search variable selection in JAGS

March 22, 2014
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Stochastic search variable selection (SSVS) identifies promising subsets of multiple regression covariates via Gibbs sampling (George and McCulloch 1993). Here’s a short SSVS demo with JAGS and R. Assume we have a multiple regression problem: We suspect only a subset of the elements of $\boldsymbol{\beta}$ are non-zero, i.e. some of the covariates have no effect. Assume $\boldsymbol{\beta}$...

## Stochastic search variable selection in JAGS

March 22, 2014
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Stochastic search variable selection (SSVS) identifies promising subsets of multiple regression covariates via Gibbs sampling (George and McCulloch 1993). Here’s a short SSVS demo with JAGS and R. Assume we have a multiple regression problem: We suspect only a subset of the elements of $boldsymbol{beta}$ are non-zero, i.e. some of the covariates have no effect. Assume $boldsymbol{beta}$ arises from...

## Pre-processing for approximate Bayesian computation in image analysis

March 20, 2014
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With Matt Moores and Kerrie Mengersen, from QUT, we wrote this short paper just in time for the MCMSki IV Special Issue of Statistics & Computing. And arXived it, as well. The global idea is to cut down on the cost of running an ABC experiment by removing the simulation of a humongous state-space vector,

## Visualize coverage for targeted NGS (exome) experiments

March 20, 2014
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I'm calling variants from exome sequencing data and I need to evaluate the efficiency of the capture and the coverage along the target regions.This sounds like a great use case for bedtools, your swiss-army knife for genomic arithmetic and interval man...

## Shiny-server Open Source Edition: Solution for CPU Bound Apps

March 19, 2014
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Shiny-server integrates the statistic power of R with web, convenients the statistical analysis through web. Users can do complecate statistical anlysis through their web browsers. However, most of statistical analysis of R are CPU bound computation, that means CPU utilization is high, perhaps at 100% for many seconds. This leads to the problem of thread blocking: if one user...

## Analysis of the Time Aspect of the Matches at The International 3 (Dota 2 Tournament)

March 16, 2014
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It's been a while since I analysed something with R. I decided to pick into Dota 2 statistics. This game is the real eSport now with players fighting for respectable prise pools. And the main Dota 2 event is The International where best teams compete each other in astonishing battles. So I grabbed some...

## A brief introduction to higher order functions in R

March 14, 2014
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In R, function may not be as special as it is in other programming languages; it is regarded as one of the many types and can be passed as an argument to some other function. The way we deal with other objects such list and data.frame definitely applies to function. Here is a simple example in which we define...

## How to use Bioconductor to find empirical evidence in support of π being a normal number

March 14, 2014
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Happy π day everybody! I wanted to write some simple code (included below) to the test parallelization capabilities of my  new cluster. So, in honor of  π day, I decided to check for evidence that π is a normal number. A … Continue reading →